Torsten

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Swedish and Danish modern form of Thorsten ^[1]

Related Names

See Þórstæinn

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

27 February

Sweden

23 February

Further Information

Namesakes

Torsten Rudenschöld (30 March 1798 - 27 May 1859), Swedish educator and social reformer

Torsten Nils Wiesel, * 3 June 1924, Swedish ophthalmologist and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1981)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		0	0	5405	17543
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	1149	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	108	151
Finland[5]		n.a.	1	n.a	2815
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Torsten.

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi